Street-cab



J. W. KIZESKI.

STREET CAR FENDER.

APPLICATION F-ILED MAR. 19. I915.

1,194,847. PatentedAug. 15,1916.

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STREET-GAR FENDER.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. Klznsxl, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Car Fenders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in street car fenders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of street car fenders and to provide a simple, inexpensive and practical street car fender designed for use on electric and other street cars and adapted to be readily secured to the same and capable, when a person or other object comes in contact with a tripping member, of being automatically moved forward and of picking up such person or object and of effectively preventing the same from getting beneath the car.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a street car fender of this character equipped with means for enabling the motorman of a car to reset it readily without leaving the platform of the car.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, pro-' portion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings Figure l is a side elevation of a streetcar fender constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to a car, Fig. 2 is a reverse plan view of the same, Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view, the fender being in its extended position, Fig. 4: is a front elevation of the car fender, and Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view illustrating the construction of the ball bearings of the slidable fender.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug; 15 1916.

Application filed March 19, 1915.

Serial No. 15,477.

the invention, 1 designates a fender constructed of suitable material and consisting of a vertical back portion 2 and a forwardly extending horizontal bottom portion 3 which is curved downwardly and forwardly at the front as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings to enable it to pick up a person or other object and thereby effectively prevent the same from getting beneath the car 4: and being run over by the wheels thereof.

The fender. is more or less resilient and it may be made in any suitable manner to avoid injuring a person caught by it and it is provided at the top and opposite sides of its back 2 with rearwardly extending approximately L-shaped arms 5 which embrace ball bearings 6. The fender is slidably mounted on horizontal guide rods 7 located at opposite sides of the fender and extending through the arms 5 and through the upper portion of the back and receiving the ball bearings 6 which enable the fender to slide backwardly and forwardly freely without friction. The ball bearings which may be of any desired construction preferably consist of collars or sleeves 8 provided in their adj acent'ends with annular grooves 9 forming a ball race for the reception of an annular series of anti-friction balls 10, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings. The back 2 of the fender and the arms 5 are provided with horizontally alined openings 11 and 12 for the receptio of the guide rods 7 which are supported by front and rear brackets 13. The brackets 13 which are substantially L-shaped are bolted or otherwise secured to the car and depend therefrom as shown and the guide rods are retained in openings of the brackets by set collars l4 and 15 arranged at the front and rear end of the guide rods but any other suitable means may of course be employed for attaching the guide rods to the supporting brackets. The fender 1 is slidable backwardly and forwardly on the horizontal guide rods 7 to arrange it beneath a car and to advance it to a projecting position for picking up a person, and it is normally maintained beneath the car in the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings by a catch 16 located above and directly engaging the fender at the upper edge of back 2.

The catch 16 which is provided at its front end with a beveled head or engaging portion is pivoted at the rear end in a bracket 17 by a transverse bolt or pin 18, and while it is adapted to drop by gravity into engagement with the fender when the latter is moved rcarwardly it is preferably actuated by a coiled spring 19 located above the catch and adapted to positively maintain the same in engagement with the fender to prevent the said catch from being accidentally jarred out of such engagement. When the catch is raised from engagement with the fender, it is moved forwardly by a coiled spring 20 disposed on the rear portion of the guide rods 7 and interposed between the fender and the rear bracket of the guide rods. ends of the coiled springs bear against the rearwardly extending arms 5 of the fender, which is released by a depending hinged tripping member 21 located in advance of the back 2 of the fender and pivoted at 22 at a point below its upper edge to provide a projecting upper portion 23 which forms an arm for operating or lifting the catch 16. The depending trip member 21 is mounted in suitable bearings 24 and it may consist of a board or frame and its upper portion is preferably -narrowed as shown in Fig. 1. The pivot 22 may consist of a rod extending through the reduced upper portion of the trip member but the latter may be hinged or pivoted in any other desired manner. The upwardly extending arm 28 of the trip member is connected by a chain 26 or other suitable flexible connection with the catch and the said chain 26 which is secured at its front end to the trip member at the top thereof eX- tends rearwardly therefrom and passes over a guide pulley 27 mounted in a suitable bracket or bearing 28 and located above the catch. The rear portion of chain depends from the pulley and is connected to the catch so that when the lower portion of the trip member is moved rearwardly or inwardly by a person or other object the top portion of the said trip member will swing forwardly and lift the catch and thereby release the fender and enable the latter to be moved forwardly by the spring 20. The fender, which is spaced from the trip member when it is at the limit of the forward movement, is adapted to save life and avoid serious injuries and it is returned to its set portion by a transversely disposed rock shaft 29 journaled in suitable bearings 30 of supporting brackets 31 and provided between the brackets with a crank loop 30 or bend which is connected with the back of the fender by a chain 32 extending forwardly from the crank loop. The rock shaft 29 is adapted to be partially rotated to swing the arm or crank rearwardly to carry the fender from the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings to that illustrated in Fig. 1. The transverse rock shaft 29 has keyed or otherwise secured to it a sprocket wheel 33 which is connected by a horizontal sprocket chain 34 with a front sprocket wheel The front I 35, which also has adjacent thereto a sprocket wheel 36 and which are journaled in suitable bearing brackets 37. The sprocket wheel 36 is connected by a vertical sprocket chain 88 with an upper sprocket wheel 39 mounted on an operating shaft 9:0 and located above the platform of the car within easy reach of the motorman. The operating shaft 40, which is journaled in suitable bearings, is provided with a crank handle e1 or other suitable operating means for enabling the shaft 40 to be rotated for transmitting rotary motion to the rock shaft 29. After the fender is returned to its set position, the operating handle 11 is rotated in a desired direction to swing the crank loop forwardly to permit the chain to slacken so as not to interfere with the forward or outward movement of the fender. Any other suitable gearing may be employed for operating the rock shaft, and the trip member may be connected with the catch in any other desired manner.

hat is claimed is 1. In combination with a car, a car fender, a pair of longitudinally extending guide rods secured to said car, substantially L-shaped arms secured to the upper end of the car fender, collars provided with an angular groove to receive ball bearings slidably mounted on said guide rods and positioned between the L-shaped arms and the car fender, a coil spring mounted on each of said guide rods and interposed between the arms and the securing means of the guide rods to move the car fender in the direction of the front end of the car, a catch pivoted to said car arms and adapted to hold the car fender against the tension of said springs, a coil spring interposed between the catch and the car for normally holding said catch into an engagement with the car fender, means for automatically releasing the catch from an engagement with the car fender to allow said car fender to move in the direction of the front end of the car under the tension of said -springs, and means for returning the car fender in the direction of the rear end of the car against the-tension of said coil spring.

2. In combination with a car, a car fender slidably mounted on said car, means for automatically moving the car fender in the direction of the front end of the car when the car fender has been released, a catch pivoted to said car and adapted to engage said car fender to hold it normally in the direction of the rear end of said car, means for holding the catch into an engagement with said car fender, a hingetrip member secured to the front end of the car and at a point forward of said fender, said trip member provided with its upper end narrowed to provide an operating arm, a chain connected to said operating arm and to the catch for raising said catch from an engagement with the fender when the trip member is moved laterally, a rock shaft journaled to said car and at a point rear of the car fender, a crank loop formed in said rock shaft, a chain connected to said crank 100p and to the car fen- In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1n presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN W. KIZESKI.

der, and means for rotating the shaft to pull WVitnesses: the ear fender in the direction of the rear TEODOR KosTAs, end of the car. WM. ZOSKA.

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